Duly Noted: Civic hackathon, Wi-Fi desert, Goose Island

On June 1, to celebrate the National Day of Civic Hacking, the Smart Chicago Collaborative will host a hackathon to encourage people to make full use of the city of Chicago's data portal, a trove of public information. -- WBEZ and audio embedded below

Among the country's top 20 metropolitan areas, Chicago has the least Wi-Fi connectivity in the workplace, according to a recent survey. -- Chicago Grid

The Illinois state House voted to override Governor Pat Quinn's veto of a bill that will raise rates on behalf of Commonwealth Edison (NYSE: EXC). This vote makes the bill law, as the state Senate had already voted to override Quinn. -- Chicago Tribune

It's probably little comfort for those who are still enraged by Chicago's decision to lease its parking meters to the private operator Chicago Parking Meters LLC, but a new report says that then-Mayor Richard Daley's staff knew there were major problems with the deal as much as a year and a half before the full extent of the deal's costs to the city became public knowledge. -- Chicago Sun-Times